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Anyone with a Twitter account could put out a virtual shingle as a church expert.
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Let us avoid clericalism in all its forms, including casting those without Ph.D.s into the outer darkness.
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Can we do anything about climate change? L.A. might show us how we can.
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Will El Salvador receive the graces of what almost all agree was a graced moment?
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The full text of Pope Francis 39 message to the Archbishop of San Salvador read at mass today His Excellency Jos Luis Escobar Alas Archbishop of San Salvador President of the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador Dear Brother The beatification of Archbishop scar Arnulfo Romero Gald mez who w
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When Blessed Oscar Romero 39 s relic the shirt he was wearing under his vestments when he was murdered was carried into the Beatification Mass this morning I ran back to the press tent to watch the procession on screen and to wait for my own video to upload It would have been a moving experie
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With three hours still to go until the mass of celebration for the beatification of Oscar Romero the Plaza El Salvador del Mundo and the surrounding streets are filled with people some of whom slept in the street overnight through the downpours and the lightning The mood is celebratory but the g
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While the beatification ceremony for Oscar Romero will be held on Saturday in Plaza El Salvador del Mundo in San Salvador many pilgrims are also visiting La Capilla del Hospital Divina Providencia the small church where Romero was assassinated while celebrating mass on March 24 1980 Some of Rome
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Among the many fascinating relics to be seen in the small museum dedicated to Oscar Romero at the site of his assassination on March 23 1980 are several small shelves of books in his rooms at the time Most are the books of a churchman collections of homilies the liturgy of the hours a Roman Mis